Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself.
Book
Cowan, J. (2008)
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. In N. L. Mertens (Ed.), Writing, Processes, Tools and Techniques, 109-113. Nova Science Publishers
The rules which epitomise good writing may on occasions be broken, deliberately and with what the writers judge to be good purpose. This can well occur when students or staff ...
Breaking the Text: An Introduction to Lacanian Discourse Analysis.
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2013)
Breaking the Text: An Introduction to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Theory and Psychology, 23, 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312473520
This paper presents an entry-level approach to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Along the way it considers crucial issues for textual analysis, arguing that Lacan’s insights provi...
Teamworking and change: managing the contradictions
Journal Article
Francis, H. (2003)
Teamworking and change: managing the contradictions. Human Resource Management Journal, 13(3), 71-90. doi:10.1111/j.1748-8583.2003.tb00099.x
Current models of HRM suggest that expectations about HR roles are changing as organisations are striving to make the HR function leaner and more ‘strategic’. In our article w...
Promoting Healthy Routes Back to Work? Boundary Spanning Health Professionals and Employability Programmes in Great Britain
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., & Dutton, M. (2011)
Promoting Healthy Routes Back to Work? Boundary Spanning Health Professionals and Employability Programmes in Great Britain. Social policy & administration,
Between 2003 and 2011, the Pathways to Work (PtW) initiative was established across Great Britain, as policymakers sought to address the ‘health-related, personal and external...
Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America
Journal Article
Siegel, K. M. (2016)
Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America. Development and Change, 47(3), 495-516. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12234
Benefitting from the commodity boom progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the ...
An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., & Johnson, S. (2010)
An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills
This paper presents a policy framework for describing the various factors that influence the success (or otherwise) of policy interventions designed to increase individual par...
The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality.
Thesis
Chen, T. The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4404
There are a variety of guidelines and methods available to measure and assess survey quality. Most of these are based on qualitative descriptions. In practice, they are not ea...
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report
Report
Osborne, S. P., Bond, S., Dutton, M., & Honore, E. (2012)
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government
The report provides findings from the second year of a three year qualitative longitudinal study on the third sector in Scotland.
The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity.
Journal Article
Lau, P. W. C., Pitkethly, A. J., Leung, B. W. C., Lau, E. Y., & Wang, J. (2019)
The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(5), 787. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050787
To examine the effects of short messaging service (SMS) frequency and timing on the 13 efficacy of an SMS-intervention for Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Sixty nine students a...
Employer recruitment preferences and discrimination: a stated preference experiment.
Report
McQuaid, R. W., & Bergmann, A. (2008)
Employer recruitment preferences and discrimination: a stated preference experiment
This paper presents a novel approach of applying stated preference methods in the field of labour economics. Differences in behaviour and labour market disadvantage are connec...